Re: Best SMTP Gateway Program and Reporting Tools

2008-08-19 Thread John Almberg
it. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best SMTP Gateway Program and Reporting Tools

2008-08-19 Thread John Almberg
On Aug 19, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Robby Balona wrote: John Almberg wrote: On Aug 12, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Josh Kidd wrote: I just wanted to pose this question to the list on people's opinions as to what the best SMTP Gateway program (ie. Sendmail, Postfix, etc) is and what the best log analysis

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 August 2008 05:39:10 am Henry Karpatskij wrote: Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know

Working ccache configuration for buildworld on amd64?

2008-08-18 Thread John Silva
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:22:01 -0400 Maxim Khitrov mkhitrov at gmail.com http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions wrote: / I think what's happening is that there is a collision in hash values // generated by ccache. That's the only thing I can think of, because // crt1.c is

Device drivers for DAT-based sound cards

2008-08-15 Thread John McCabe
Hello, Is there any person(s) developing a driver for DAT-chipset-based Creative sound cards? If this is the wrong mailing list to ask this question, please tell me which is the proper list. Regards, John McCabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Unable to update transcode port

2008-08-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 13 August 2008 07:54:47 pm Clint Olsen wrote: Hi: I've not been able to upgrade my transcode port for some time. It eventually fails with: ERROR: requirement failed: cannot link against libavcodec libavcodec can be found in the following packages: FFmpeg

Re: Mac RDP (Was: apple mac laptop)

2008-08-13 Thread John Almberg
On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:06 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: John Almberg ha scritto: I don't think it's far OT, either, since IMHO, Mac desktops and FreeBSD servers are the perfect, practical combination for many organizations, including my own. Since there seem to be a lot of expert here

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want three things. 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance boost as well - it's mostly a multimedia machine decent/good 3D acceleration (better than a GeForce 7300GS - a few

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want three things. 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of performance

Re: Monitoring raid health with mpt

2008-08-12 Thread John Almberg
, and maybe even logs the event somewhere... I'm just not sure where. I'm going to try digging in the docs for my raid controller... -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-09 Thread John Almberg
different OSs (one is more than enough for me!) I basically think of OSX as BSD with a really, really good GUI. Blows the doors off the usual Unix desktops (which is why I switched.) -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to set quota ( as Mbyte ) for a directory?

2008-08-09 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 08 August 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 8, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Yavuz Maslak wrote: On freebsd7, How to set quota for a directory? For instance I want to set 100Mbyte quota for a directory. How can I do that ? Quotas are handled per filesystem, not per directory. See man

Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-08 Thread John Almberg
a tiny bit. Anyway, thanks to everybody who replied onlist and off. gary I don't think it's far OT, either, since IMHO, Mac desktops and FreeBSD servers are the perfect, practical combination for many organizations, including my own. -- John

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread John Almberg
Hello John, There are some things that you can try. What if you connect from localhost and transfer files, is it still very slow? Try to disable TLS/SSL and see if this improve performance. Increase debug level and check the log for any errors. Well, I am learning lots about FTP :-) I

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread John Almberg
still delete any file, regardless of permissions | or ownership. This is clearly a problem... I don't want my users to be | able to blow away their own websites while they are uploading some | images. I am still digging for info on this problem. Any thoughts, much | appreciated! | | -- John

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-06 Thread John Almberg
into | his own directory, but enough power to hurt themselves, which is too | much power, IMHO. My users aren't experts. I can definitely see them | clicking the delete key by accident. | | Back to digging for info... | | Thanks: John | Hi John, After logging into pure-ftpd, even if I type cd /, I cannot

Re: Controlling read access

2008-08-05 Thread John Almberg
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Catalin Miclaus wrote: Hello John, If you are providing only FTP services for those users, perhaps you want to go for an FTP server that handles virtual users. I'm using pure-ftpd and it works great. Google will help you find some nice howto's for same. Hi

Re: keyboard!!

2008-08-03 Thread John Almberg
I suppose this is mentioning the obvious, but in case anyone thinks IBM Model M keyboards are hard to find, just check eBay. You can get them in good condition for around $25. Good condition meaning it will last another 10 years (at least.) -- John

Re: Adding device to FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE

2008-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 01 August 2008, Jack Raats wrote: I would like to add the zyd device to FreeBSD. The zyd driver allready is in FreeBSD 7.0. Which steps do I have to take to add the zyd device to FreeBSD? Sorry, what are you asking? What version of FreeBSD are you using and what do you need help

Re: Adding device to FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE

2008-08-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 01 August 2008 12:13:41 pm John Nielsen wrote: On Friday 01 August 2008, Jack Raats wrote: I would like to add the zyd device to FreeBSD. The zyd driver allready is in FreeBSD 7.0. Which steps do I have to take to add the zyd device to FreeBSD? Sorry, what are you asking? What

Re: mount_msdosfs usb flash stick

2008-08-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 02 August 2008, joeb wrote: On 6.2 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD box I get console msg about da0 device as usb flash memory stick.

Re: Mounting hfs+ ipod on freebsd i386

2008-07-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 31 July 2008, David Gurvich wrote: Does the kernel need to be rebuilt in order to mount an ipod formatted with apple's hfs+ filesystem? If yes, what options are needed in the kernel and if not, what needs to be done? Other than reformatting to fat32. Take a look at emulators/hfs

Controlling read access

2008-07-31 Thread John Almberg
the contents of other users home directories. I want to block this read access. What is the best way to do this? Turn off the read bit for 'other'? Or is there some better way? Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Controlling read access

2008-07-31 Thread John Almberg
it, read the man pages for ftpd(8) and ftpchroot(5) Ah... I knew there had to be a better way. I am using sftp-server. I'm going to try to find some documentation on it right now... Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

7.0-stable snapshot

2008-07-30 Thread John Wilson
Good day. I recently attempted to install the most recent AMD64 7.0-snapshot onto another system. I chose a minimal install with all of the source distributions as well as ports. Unfortunately, the install fails when attempting to install the scompat tarball. Upon looking at the install

'help'

2008-07-28 Thread John Dakos [ Enovation Technologies ]
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Re: upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0

2008-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 25 July 2008, tethys ocean wrote: I ve got 6.3 stable database server. Can i directly upgrade my server from 6.3 to 7.0 Sure. Be prepared to rebuild and/or reinstall all your ports/packages and follow the other guidelines in src/UPDATING and other documentation. *default

Re: Java

2008-07-22 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read in _Absolute FreeBSD_ that there is now an easy-to-install Java package for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0, but I have so far not found this package. Does it exist? Yes. These packages are created. licensed and maintained by the

Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
Hi there, bit of a tricky question: I have an Adaptec RAID-5 array which decided to puke recently -- the controller seems OK, as do the drives, but something appears to have gone wrong and I had to rebuild the array. Long story short, my array went astray and I lost partition and filesystem

Re: Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
isn't.) I've tried setting geometry in fdisk any which way (including using the RAID controller's provided values), and as I said, the thing mounts the root partition of the array just fine. I'm considering an exorcist. Best, -John On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Polytropon wrote: Hi

Re: Recover Lost Superblocks?

2008-07-21 Thread John Morgan Salomon
superblocks that newfs -N found? 3) is there a way to re-create aacd0s1a, aacd0s1b and aacd0s1e? The rescue OS seems to only want to bother with aacd0s1c, which was not used by any of the partitions previously. Thanks for any help, -John On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:04 PM, John Morgan Salomon wrote

Re: Using ccd with zfs

2008-07-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:18:31 am Steven Schlansker wrote: Hello -questions, I have a FreeBSD ZFS storage system working wonderfully with 7.0. It's set up as three 3-disk RAIDZs -triplets of 500, 400, and 300GB drives. I recently purchased three 750GB drives and would like to convert to

Fwd: how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-20 Thread John Almberg
. Thanks! -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-17 Thread John Almberg
John, it is not a permissions issue, but rather a path issue. Do as the other poster suggested and run a cron job to dump the environment and you will see that the PATH inside a cron job is very rudimentary. Either add what you need to it in the crontab or cron job, or always use absolute paths

how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-16 Thread John Almberg
, try again... It would be much simpler if I could simulate the crontab's environment, and just run the thing from the command line. Any hope? I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-16 Thread John Almberg
as I can tell) So I was testing with my environment, but crontab was running under the other user's environment. I always thought that su user and login user were equivalent. Now I know better :-) Anyway, thanks for putting me on the right path. -- John

Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-16 Thread John Almberg
On Jul 16, 2008, at 10:03 PM, John Almberg wrote: I'm guessing you're having problems with environment settings, although the vagaries of the question don't give me much to go on (something along the lines of, when I try to do x in cron, I get the error y; but it works fine when the user

ia-64 Floppies

2008-07-09 Thread John William Blyth
Please help: I am trying to install Free BSD ia-64 architecture but cannot find floppies. Will the 386 floppies work? My cdrom will not boot from ia-64 live. I had a i386 installation but wanted to replace it. Thanks, John William Blyth (newbie) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to anothermachine?

2008-07-07 Thread John Almberg
very often, and had been moved (using mysqldump) to this new machine in the last 6 weeks or so. So this doesn't sound like a likely cause. However, a very interesting thing to know... -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-07-06 Thread John Nielsen
I'm behind on my mailing list reading and don't really want to prolong/resurrect this thread unduly, but I do want to respond to this point: On Thursday 12 June 2008 07:37:06 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you must have disks dedicated for raidz, disks dedicated for mirrored storage and disks

Fwd: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread John Almberg
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: John Almberg wrote: Luckily, I have a pretty powerful machine sitting right next to my main webserver that I mainly use for backup. The two servers are directly connected to each other with a twisted ethernet cable, using extra NIC cards

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread John Almberg
. Am I interpreting it wrong? How can you tell that it's out of RAM? Thanks: John last pid: 43730; load averages: 1.93, 2.64, 2.22 up 92+19:45:54 09:26:27 238 processes: 3 running, 235 sleeping CPU states: 8.1% user, 0.0% nice, 17.3% system

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread John Almberg
of these basic things, I just haven't run into, yet. Obviously, Apache 2 gets loaded with a whole bunch of default modules? I didn't realize that, before. Okay... I need to figure out which ones I really need. Thanks for push in the right direction... -- John

Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-05 Thread John Almberg
WCPU COMMAND 8672 mysql 7 1000 58412K 41004K CPU1 0 27:07 1.17% mysqld It doesn't seem to make sense! I expected the heavy mysql load to be moved to the second machine, not eliminated. Any thoughts, much appreciated. -- John

Does 'top' work on multi-processor systems?

2008-07-03 Thread John Almberg
higher than they really are, but that's just a guess. Any thoughts? Is there a better tool for measuring load? -- John last pid: 43730; load averages: 1.93, 2.64, 2.22 up 92+19:45:54 09:26:27 238 processes: 3 running, 235 sleeping CPU states

Split or switch ssh pseudoconsole

2008-06-27 Thread John Almberg
to split a ssh console so you can see both and switch between pseudo terminals with a couple of keystrokes? (Kinda like vi split screen?) -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Split or switch ssh pseudoconsole

2008-06-27 Thread John Almberg
John Almberg wrote: I log into my remote server using ssh. As I understand it, this gets me into a pseudo terminal. Is there any I can easily switch to another pseudo terminal, in the same way you can switch to another virtual terminal if you are logged into a local machine? Even better

Re: Split or switch ssh pseudoconsole

2008-06-27 Thread John Almberg
On Jun 27, 2008, at 6:12 PM, John Almberg wrote: John Almberg wrote: I log into my remote server using ssh. As I understand it, this gets me into a pseudo terminal. Is there any I can easily switch to another pseudo terminal, in the same way you can switch to another virtual terminal

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-21 Thread John Almberg
for an operating system. FreeBSD has given me a chance to relax for the first time in years. Thank you FreeBSD team! -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread John Almberg
the slowdowns together which they do. Do you have PF installed? pftop is a quick way to see what's happening on the network interface. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

two monitors, two displays, one PC

2008-06-11 Thread John Wynstra
memory and hard drive so that I can take it with me. Can I still use the old monitor as a second display? Can this be done? Is it done? What are the issues? -- -- Real name: John L Wynstra -- Apartment 9G 43-10 Kissena Blvd Flushing, N.Y. 11355 -- (347) 813-0910 [cell] (718) 939-9785

Re: logo

2008-06-03 Thread John Almberg
as an image? The image is only in the beholder's eye. It would likely have sent Mary Whitehouse* apoplectic if she'd seen it ;) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse I must lead a very sheltered life... sex toy??? I don't get it! :-) -- John

mono-addins-0.3.1 port fails with Error 1

2008-05-31 Thread John Murphy
. -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Slightly OT - steaming data server software?

2008-05-18 Thread John Pettitt
already doing that internally but it doesn't work for opening up the data stream to the public). John. P.S. for those who are interested AIS data contains info about large ships at sea - you can see live SF bay data on a map here http://hd-sf.com/livemap.html

Re: another problem

2008-05-17 Thread John Wynstra
and redo this step or is that done automatically? I just now did another *portsnap fetch update* and openoffice.org was not listed among the new ports. Of course *pkg_version -v* gives me an incomplete listing. John Wynstra wrote: (1) How do I test the version number of this? (2) I did portsnap

Re: another problem

2008-05-17 Thread John Wynstra
And glib2 is part of Gnome? I never installed Gnome because I don't like Gnome. I tried to manually install /usr/ports/devel/gio-fam-backend and got the same error. Perhaps I need to get Gnome off the installation CDROM. I really only need the library stuff. Alternatively is there an Internet

Re: another problem

2008-05-17 Thread John Wynstra
? Glyn Millington wrote: John Wynstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And glib2 is part of Gnome? I never installed Gnome because I don't like Gnome. I tried to manually install /usr/ports/devel/gio-fam-backend and got the same error. Perhaps I need to get Gnome off the installation CDROM. I really

Re: another problem ...

2008-05-16 Thread John Wynstra
. Is there a way to get these? Does one get all the ports at one shot which might be useful as I don't know where I am going wrong. Or just the one? Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:58:22PM -0400, John Wynstra wrote: I cleaned up and reran the make install

Re: another problem ...

2008-05-16 Thread John Wynstra
I think I should use portsnap. # portsnap fetch # portsnap update # since there already is a /usr/ports subtree John Wynstra wrote: I asked Jonathan Chen what was the easiest way to do this. Was it CSup? Also how do I check for the latest version? The manual indicates pkg_version -v does

Re: another problem ...

2008-05-16 Thread John Wynstra
/ports/net/avahi-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gnome-vfs. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2. [root@ /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2]# John Wynstra wrote: I think I should use portsnap. # portsnap

Thanks and another problem ...

2008-05-15 Thread John Wynstra
Thanks for the solution to my Firefox/Thunderbird woes. All cured now. The answer was to add prefs to Thunderbird to allow Firefox in as suggested by Tore Lund. Since these preferences do not exist already they need to be added manually to a file. Now I am trying to build Open Office for

Firefox and Thunderbird annoyance in TWM

2008-05-13 Thread John Wynstra
bookmarks file it will raise the screen selected. It is only when I double click from Thunderbird that this is broken. Once in a while an odd thing like when moving the mouse over one window will raise another in addition to changing focus. Another annoyance. -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED

Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog

2008-05-01 Thread John
a find / --name bin. Didn't turn up anything. I'll also note that it is not in var/db/mysql with the rest of the mysql data files and the ib_logfiles which would have been useful, but the data I am trying to recover is from a MyISAM. Thanks for the help! -John

Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog

2008-05-01 Thread John Vaughan
a find / --name bin. Didn't turn up anything. I'll also note that it is not in var/db/mysql with the rest of the mysql data files and the ib_logfiles which would have been useful, but the data I am trying to recover is from a MyISAM. Thanks for the help! -John

RE: Recovering mysql data - mysqlbinlog

2008-05-01 Thread John
on and now I'm the wiser thanks to you guys. I wonder why the default is no. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't find the binary logging beneficial. I didn't run myisamchk since I'm trying to restore data that was mistakenly deleted and not recovering from a corruption. -John -Original Message

CVSUP mirror failed on 7.0-RELEASE - Unknown collection src-all

2008-04-29 Thread John Mok
cvsupd[2633]: =0 Unknown collection src-all Apr 29 21:41:44 havana cvsupd[2633]: -0 [0Kin+0Kout] Finished successfully I used the cvsup-mirror port on FreeBSD 6.x and it worked out of the box. I hope someone could point me what went wrong. Thanks a lot. John Mok

Re: Cron question

2008-04-26 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:31 AM, John Almberg wrote: ...and invoking this wrapper from cron instead of trying to reset the shell and everything from within cron. You can test things by doing an su gs -c /bin/sh from a root login and then trying to run your wrapper, which will give

Re: Cron question

2008-04-25 Thread John Almberg
Free Software Foundation, Inc. I guess I will try using the shell script wrapper idea, to some more experiments in a more controlled environment. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Cron question

2008-04-24 Thread John Almberg
runtime environment? Any insight much appreciated. Brgds: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD on.identry.com 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1: Mon Dec 3 09:46:53 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ INET_ON amd64 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which php /usr/local

Re: USB wireless AP?

2008-04-23 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:57:28 am Ivan Voras wrote: I've found a perfect match for my needs: D-Link DWL-G122, with the rum driver. Not a single problem so far, everything works as documented. Truly a plug and play experience. I'm just curious about one more thing: I wish to set up a b/g

HOWTO local FTP mirror for FreeBSD installation

2008-04-19 Thread John Mok
than changing CD-ROMs many many times for one installation. Thank you, John Mok ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Estimating bandwidth requirements for web/mail server

2008-04-16 Thread John Almberg
up as I add websites to the server. Other than empirically measuring load on the box, is there a way to predict or measure how much bandwidth I need? Any rules of thumb? Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Booting 7.0 off of USB Flash Card....

2008-04-16 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 08:55:41 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and I've installed 7.0 on a USB flash card, but I can't seem to boot off of it. I don't get an error message, the PC just goes through POST, then re-cycles and continues this loop. I was able to get

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 04:56:37 pm Robert Huff wrote: Josh Carroll writes: I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how todo that. You will want to use options SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD in your kernel config. Am I correct in

RE: DNS server Problem

2008-04-14 Thread John Clement
I have BIND DNS Server in my freebsd, i keep on searching in google on how to restart it? is there a command to restart it like the squid and dhcp? or there is no command for it? You might like to try # rndc reload Cheers Thanks in advanced..

mbmon type program that works with SuperMicro motherboards?

2008-04-12 Thread John Pettitt
I'm looking for a hardware monitor that will work with newer supermicro boards (mbmon / xmbmon doesn't)- any suggestions (I'm running RELENG_7) John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
lan switch. -- John #!/usr/bin/perl my $day_of_week = (localtime)[6]; my $file_prefix = '/backup/ON-'.$day_of_week.'-'; system('dump -0Laun -f - /tmp | gzip -2 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] \'dd of='.$file_prefix.'tmp.gz\''); system('dump -0Laun -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh [EMAIL

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Webster
We use the following in a script to backup our servers. /bin/ssh -q -o 'BatchMode yes' -l user host '/sbin/dump -h 0 -0uf - /home \ | /usr/bin/gzip --fast' 2 /path/to/logs/host/home_full.dump.log /backups/host_home_full.dump.gz --On April 4, 2008 12:59:27 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL

Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
, but I'm far from a DNS expert. Any advice, much appreciated. Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
think tar or rsync have anything like it. -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
-ns2, but they typed ns1-ns3. I'll let them know. Very handy, indeed! Thanks: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

F_NOTIFY in fcntl(2)?

2008-04-03 Thread John Conover
Does freebsd support the F_NOTIFY, (i.e., File and directory change notification,) in fcntl(2)? I get that it doesn't, but its an old 5X version, and I might have to upgrade. Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com

Kind Regards

2008-04-02 Thread john kihahu
! Kind regards. John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-19 Thread John A.
archives and the next time I add some drives, will try Patrick's answer. Thank you for a quick response. John A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Problem with multiple scsi adapters and drive assignments

2008-03-18 Thread John A.
I've searched all over (not totally exhaustive, but close) and can't find an answer that I thought would have come up before. Basically, I need to change the order that the kernel assigns drive names on bootup. It all started out with an old Intel server board with NCR/Symbios scsi builton. I

Re: interactive stop on boot

2008-03-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 14 March 2008 11:24:57 am Jason Barnes wrote: Hi -- I'm running a Tombstone machine that's functioning as a server. The machine is located somewhere with a fast connection, and not somewhere that I have easy access to. As such, I want this machine to do its best to boot up and get

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:37:44 pm Alexander Sack wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everydoy: I apologize if this isn't exactly the right place but I'm out of options! I've posted on the Fusion community website up on vmware.com but

Re: VPN - Which way to go?

2008-03-05 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 06:21:47 pm Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: I need to setup a VPN connection to the university's network. Now, there's a chapter in the handbook about VPN over IPsec and there seems to be this thing called OpenVPN in the ports collection. Which is the better way to

Re: looks like success

2008-03-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello B., Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: Hello all, make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly) if you really want to delete all things: # yes | make

Re: looks like success

2008-03-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 03 March 2008 12:45:31 pm John Nielsen wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008 03:50:43 am Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello B., Thursday, February 28, 2008, 9:27:03 PM, you wrote: Hello all, make delete-old (took a long time to do by hand) and make delete-old-libs (went rather quickly

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 March 2008 04:23:24 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)

2008-02-28 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 28 February 2008 09:48:43 pm Sean Cavanaugh wrote: which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. I haven't actually tried to use any version from the ports recently, opting instead to manually use the tarball on

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-27 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 11:14:26 am Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Monday 18 February 2008 5:02 pm, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:58:26 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Monday 18 February 2008 01:47:14 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:28 -0500, John

Re: wi0 (4.11) = rum0 (7.0)

2008-02-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 21 February 2008 02:46:09 am Lystopad Oleksandr wrote: Hi! I have two FreeBSD boxes. One with 4.11 and wi0 device, and another with 7.0-PRE with rum0 device. I need to connect wi0 and rum0 via adhoc mode. 7.0 cant find wi0 device with ifconfig rum0 scan. Please, help me to

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 as guest: vmware-config.pl problem

2008-02-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 February 2008 03:07:48 pm Olivier Robert wrote: I try to install FreeBSD 6.3 64 bits in a Fedora VMware Workstation 6.0..2. I have done the install by choosing ALL + no extra packages (but bash). Xorg is 1.4.0 I can have a working X with vesa drivers. When running

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 February 2008 01:47:14 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:29:28 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Monday 18 February 2008 12:31:37 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:17 -0500, John Nielsen wrote On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri

Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools

2008-02-17 Thread John Nielsen
On Sunday 17 February 2008 01:06:28 pm Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I'm not sure whether to have posted this here or on a VMware list; apologies if I'm in the wrong place. The other day, I did a fresh install of v. 7RC2 from the minimal CD on a CentOS 5.1 box running VMware server 1.0.4. I had

gnome screensaver crashes

2008-02-10 Thread John L
On a nice fresh install of FreeBSD 6.3 and gnome, gnome-screensaver crashes at X startup claiming that it can't talk to the dbus daemon, even though the daemon is running. Is this a known problem? It seems to be new in the latest version of X and/or Gnome.

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread John Almberg
for deploying web applications, which will allow you to make your economic simulations available to anyone on the net. Just my two cents. Brgds: John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Fwd: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread John Almberg
, to get his ideas out there, and to have a bit of fun. Smalltalk is easy to learn, and fun. However, there are lots of ways to skin this cat... this is just my opinion. -- John Websites for On-line Collectible Dealers

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